Diagnostic Handbook of Voice Pathology

The Investigation of the human voice has become an important area of study for its numerous applications in medical as well as industrial disciplines. People suffering from pathological voices have to face many difficulties in their daily lives. The voice pathology disorders are associated with respiratory, nasal, neural and larynx diseases. Thus, analysis and diagnosis of vocal disorders have become an important medical procedure. This has inspired a great deal of research in voice analysis measure for developing models to evaluate human verbal communication capabilities. Voice analysis mainly deals with extraction of some parameters from voice signals, which is used to process the voice in appropriate for the particular application by using suitable techniques. The use of these techniques combined with classification methods provides the development of expert aided systems for the detection of voice pathologies. This handbook details about certain common medical conditions which affect voice patterns of patients and the tests which are used for diagnosis of voice disorder.